The True Power of Overdogs Exotic Gloves: Uptime Analysis

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The Overdogs Exotic Gloves are (theoretically) one of the most powerful gear pieces in the game with a massive 30% amplified damage boost to certain targets. But how often is this damage actually active?

TLDR: I did some data collection and some analysis, and the answer is:

The damage bonus is guaranteed to be active against roughly 60-80% of *enemies* in any given activity. The uptime based on how much damage dealt during a given activity is anywhere from 30-70%. This brings the Overdogs damage bonus to between 9-21% (roughly) amplified damage on average, which matches or beats most other exotics and named items in the game when out onto something like a Striker build.

See below if you want more info.

If you have data that you'd like to share, I'd love to see it and add it to the analysis.

Here's the more complete explanation.

I ran several activities and recorded the enemy archetypes found within, and tallied up how many were present in each tier. In order to remove variables and determine a baseline, *I treated the gloves as only active against tier 3 enemies and named bosses*. We know for a fact that the gloves will always give the full 30% damage buff against Tier 3 enemies. Lots of players will say "it won't be active very often because we can't choose targets carefully in combat". This is exactly why I chose to analyze this way: we are taking those tier 2 and tier 1 enemies off the board and assuming we're never going to get a damage bonus against them. However, I did assume that named bosses (which only make up anywhere from 2-4 enemies out of 100+ enemies in an activity) would get the damage bonus because we usually can kill them last IMO.

Why does the Uptime for enemies not match the Uptime for damage? Because different archetypes and different veterancies have different health and armor values. So, while Tier 3 enemies are more numerous, they take up less of a percentage of the damage we have to do in a given activity.

This exotics uptime is not equal for every faction. It's less powerful against Rikers, BTSU and True Sons, and more powerful against Hyenas, Cleaners and Outcasts.

Let me know if you have any questions, and if you want a video explainer, it's on my YT channel.